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A selection of short films, not so short films highlighting the talent in our Trans/Enby/Genderqueer/Gender fluid/Gender nonconforming/A-gender community! If this is you and you have something you want to show please submit here on Facebook or submit@periwinklecinema.com We are looking for everything!
Accepting submissions until 11.15.19

This year Periwinkle Cinema falls on TDOR proper. Since 1999 November 20th has been a day for us to remember those we have lost to violence. While we hold place in our hearts for people we have lost, we also want to hold space for those who are here and witnessing their creative voice.
As always, FREE POPCORN, Raffle and door prizes!

Submissions: through direct message on the Periwinkle Cinema FB page or
through our website submit@periwinklecinema.com

 BRIAN DARR + SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER + APHID + X73 +
We celebrate the diversity of means of personal expression in our lo-fi media landscape! OC fave Brian (Hell On Frisco Bay)Darr deploys 35mm slides, 16mm clips, VHS tapes, Glenn Waite’s home-made analog synth, and bits of Thom Andersen/Noel Burch’s Red Hollywood to tell the tale of Hollywood 10 victim Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, a noir critique that turns on emerging surveillance themes. In from Berlin, trans-national kino-collagist Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Memories is an amateur b/w photo retrospective spun from a shoebox of family snapshots from mid-century Germany. In the AntikytheranMechanism, X73’s David Cox, John Smalley, and Rachel Levin weave together vocals, video, film, and music to rhapsodize on the Aegean Sea discovery of that ancient Greek astronomical clock that could forecast solar eclipses. Abram (Aphid) Stern fast-forwards though this history of thinking machines to the new mode of “generative-video” with his Unburning show’n’tell, operating on FBI aerial footage of the 2015 Baltimore Uprising to reveal hidden data-overlays “burned in” by the Bureau’s infrared sensors.*$9  

LYNNE SACHS + BARBARA HAMMER + SU FRIEDRICH +
Barbara Hammer (RIP) passed the batons, and tonight Lynne Sachs is back in the Bay to twirl them! Marching through on a national tour for her newly published Year by YearPoems,Lynne debuts three Hammer collabs, screens substantial sections from her own last two features, and revives an evergreen of women’s cinema. As Hammer lay dying, she bequeathed a trio of unfinished films to Deborah Stratman (Vever), Mark Street (So Many Ideas Impossible to DoAll), and Lynne herself (A Month of Single Frames)…and after considerable time and effort, and with Wexner Center help, all those projects have come to fruition! Anointed to carry on Hammer ‘s local legacy (both SFSU grads!), Lynne converses about the creative process from the quotidian, to writing, to filming. That’s how we get to see Friedrich’s historic hand-scratched Gently Down the Stream, as well as a generous portion of Sachs’ latest Tip of my Tongue, and a sizable sneak peek at her in-progress A Film about a Father Who. Benefit for the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant! *$8-20